Imaginary Conversations #3 : Poetry (2010) Directed by Chang-dong Lee

- She went to the doctor for a tingly arm, describing her symptoms she looks up and points desperately at the ceiling : “it feels like energy.” “Oh you mean electricity,” he thinks she has Alzheimer’s.
- You first forget pronouns, then verbs, and then…
- And she wants to be a poet at 60, always had a poet’s vein and loved flowers.
- One day she forgets the name of the thing which holds money, she only feels it’s weight.
- Isn’t poetry about just that, the weight?
- It’s about the gap, between the name and the thing named.
- “Into the furrows/ of the heavenscoin in the doorcrack/ you press the word.”
- Maybe you see the thing when you forget it’s name?
- It’s a play of appearances, what you see is never real enough.
- She takes out her notebook and kneels beside a bed of roses and writes down : “ red roses/ the color of blood ”

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Imaginary Conversations #2 : Night and Day (1991) Directed by Chantal Akerman

- When life is divided into Night and Day, sleep has no place.
- Sleep becomes a bad omen, disturbing life itself.
- That’s true if you’re young and in love. Sleep consumes the time needed for youth.
- “For the deeper perception does not believe that she, who lies like someone sleeping in a glass coffin, was awakened.”
- “I only know how to interpret dreams.” Said Jack to Julie.
- Daydreaming replaces dreaming.
- Interpreting daydreams is the realm of phenomenology.
- Daydreaming is hyperreal and doesn’t communicate in signs.

- Julie wanders alone through Paris at night, while Jack drives his Cab.
- She’s a sleepwalker.
- One night he asks her to ride the Taxi with him instead of walking, she feels oppressed even though the windows of the car were open.
- When they remodeled their flat making the bedroom bigger, Julie had no place in it anymore.

Imaginary Conversations #1 : The Green Room 1978 Directed and Written by François Truffaut

(before I talk about death, I’d like to say that “Truffaut” sounds like some delicious French dessert.)

- This movie is the third and last film where Truffaut appears as the main character. At the end of the film he dies in an altar dedicated to his dead friends.
- There was a picture of Oscar Wilde and Cocteau in the chapel, his symbolic death on screen means that he wants to join these great artists that are held in the collective memory of culture.
-He never finished his 30 films.
- The best way to love the dead, is to keep their memory alive.
- The living select the dead.
- Imagine if a memorial was built for all the dead, the last person on earth won’t be remembered right?
- I think the living feel guilty because they have survived death, that’s why they remember the dead.
- Memorials are made so that the living could feel sorry for themselves.

The flight attendant gives you safety instructions: “BE SURE TO ADJUST YOUR MASK BEFORE HELPING OTHERS.” If you believe enough in the illustrated instructions in the pocket of your front seat, then you are waiting for their execution.